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Feminist Finance Syllabus

By Inte Gloerich, October 13, 2020

Feminist Finance Syllabus is here ✊ Download your digital copy Amateur Cities and Institute of Network Cultures are proud to present Feminist Finance Syllabus, a supplement to the Feminist Finance Zine titled Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance. It is a result of the Twitter conversations that took place during three launch events of the zine [...]

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing

By Barbara Dubbeldam, May 25, 2020

Finally, there it is: your hard-wrought publication that provides all the necessary facts and reflections on a topic that inflamed public debate… two years ago. Time passes quickly and people have moved on, leaving behind the rubbles of badly informed and heavily polarized discussions and an ever more self-referential and hyped-up mediasphere. Or: there it [...]

The Web. Coronavirus e web 2.0 : domande e risposte della filosofia

By Tommaso Campagna, May 6, 2020

  In questo saggio Lorenza Saettone tratta di distanziamento e di connessioni, di incoerenze e di strumenti con cui leggere noi stessi e la realtà che ci circonda. Le misure del lockdown chiamano a sé ulteriori separazioni, come il digital divide e la divisione metafisica tra virtuale e reale, un dualismo che però non è [...]

README.first: Essays on film and technology / Essays over film en technologie

By Miriam Rasch, April 3, 2020

PDF in English PDF in Dutch EPUB in English and Dutch README.first is a bilingual collection of mini-essays, published in the run up to the Plokta filmfestival. We’ve asked writers, researchers, theorists, artists, programmers, and others to pick an online video that functions as a stepping stone for their thought and practice and to comment [...]

The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture

By Miriam Rasch, January 17, 2020

(ENGLISH AND GERMAN VERSION) The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture English version: ‘The network is everlasting’ wrote Robert Filliou and George Brecht in 1967, a statement that, at first glance, still seems to be true of today’s world. Yet there are also signs that the omnipresence of networks is evolving into [...]

It Happened on Tinder: Reflections and Studies on Internet-Infused Dating

By Barbara Dubbeldam, December 17, 2019

Edited by: Amir Hetsroni and Meriç Tuncez. This volume brings together articles from different parts of the globe that describe, question, test and criticize innovations and recent developments in online dating. Using quantitative as well as qualitative techniques the studies included in the book examine the impact of gender, personality traits, app interface and design, [...]

Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 5, 2019

Edited by Sophie Bloemen and Thomas de Groot. Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews that showcase the wealth of transformative ideas that the commons have to offer. Featuring reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable [...]

Design my Privacy

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, April 18, 2016

Your privacy is under pressure. Sometimes it appears as if the computer knows exactly what our needs are, or what we are looking for. We click, we like and app to our hearts content. The Internet knows exactly who we are and gives us all kinds of free information. But behind the smart products and [...]

Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe: Amsterdam Design Manifesto

By Barbara Dubbeldam, July 5, 2019

Written by Mieke Gerritzen & Geert Lovink. Download the pdf here. When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply don’t see it anymore because it’s everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. [...]

Flying Money 2018: Investigating Illicit Financial Flows in the City

By Inte Gloerich, April 3, 2019

  Download links:     About the book: Being a hub and a hotspot for many people from all over the world means that new dynamics have entered Amsterdam and other cities in the last few years. Money flows pass through the city, and we often do not know anymore whose money this is, where it [...]